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Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa : Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management
Holden, Stein T. (ed.); Otsuka, Keijiro (ed.);  … - 2013
Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106405
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Sustainable Management : Coping with the Dilemmas of Resource-Oriented Management
Müller-Christ, Georg - 2011
In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. Firms that decide to act more sustainable have to bear in mind that they do not only need resources for economic activities today, but that they will need these tomorrow as well. This leads to contradictory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015349
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Cost Accounting for Shared IT Infrastructures
Brandl, Reinhard (contributor) - 2008
Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today s data centres. A usage-based allocation of infrastructure costs to business processes or users is often not possible as the necessary resource consumption measurements incur too much overhead. Reinhard Brandl...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521008
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Housing market dynamics in Africa
Bah, El-hadj; Faye, Issa; Geh, Zekebweliwai F. - 2018
This open access book utilizes new data to thoroughly analyze the main factors currently shaping the African housing market. Some of these factors include the supply and demand for housing finance, land tenure security issues, construction cost conundrum, infrastructure provision, and low-cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857990
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Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources
Leal Filho, Walter - 2012
The book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It … contains examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, and addresses the need to promote sustainable water use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015539
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Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013) : Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures
Wen, Kui - 2015
, and Hebei Province -- Studies on Carrying Capacity of Water Resources in Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei -- Studies on … Carrying Capacity of Water Resources in Beijing and Tianjin - Based on the Water Footprint -- Studies on Ecological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019506
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Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain : Policy Implications
Garrido, Alberto - 2010
Literature Review -- Methodological Approaches -- Data and Limitations -- Spain’s Water Footprint -- Net Virtual-Water …The evaluation of the water footprint and virtual water trade has become a promising means to evaluate the … sustainability of a country’s water resources. This book is based on the research and results of a thorough study carried out for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521325
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Entropy, Water and Resources : An Essay in Natural Sciences-Consistent Economics
Niemes, Horst - 2010
The Water Use Model -- Conceptual Foundations: Thermodynamics and Capital Theory -- General Design of Dynamic Models … for Water Uses -- Specifications for Constructing the Water Use Model -- Constraints of the Water Use Model -- Optimality … Conditions of the Water Use Model -- The Water Infrastructure Model -- Case Studies Guiding the Integration of Water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013522803
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Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Volume II : Modeling Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Implications
Khanna, Madhu (ed.); Zilberman, David (ed.) - 2017
In its second volume, this book aims to link the academic research with development in the real world and provide a historical and institutional background that can enrich more formal research. The first section will include an assessment of the evolution and the state of the nascent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398209
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Bewertung von Spezialimmobilien : Risiken, Benchmarks und Methoden
Bienert, Sven (ed.); Wagner, Klaus (ed.) - 2018 - 2. Aufl. 2018
Dieses Standardwerk analysiert in über 35 Einzelbeiträgen die Besonderheiten und Risikopotenziale bei der Bewertung von Spezialimmobilien und erläutert sie systematisch anhand der aktuellsten Entwicklungen. Das Buch gibt nicht nur Sachverständigen und Investoren eine unverzichtbare...
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